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November 19, 2020
** Global Attitudes & Trends
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A biweekly digest of the Center's latest findings from its worldwide public opinion surveys and demographic research · Subscribe ↗ ([link removed])
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** The COVID-19 test
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A new survey ([link removed]) from Pew Research Center shows most Europeans give the EU positive marks for its handling of the coronavirus outbreak. Roughly six-in-ten across eight EU member states polled this past summer said Brussels had done a good job dealing with the pandemic. A similar share of Britons agreed. A similar “COVID-19 test” faced the UN this year, which, like the EU, sought to leverage international cooperation ([link removed]) to combat the pandemic.
Our polling ([link removed]) in Europe and elsewhere revealed generally positive assessments of the UN and the WHO’s handling of the health crisis, at least through July. Now coronavirus cases are surging in Europe, the United States and other countries, even as the advent of a vaccine seems nigh. Whether governments and multilateral organizations, like the EU and UN, continue to pass the “COVID-19 test” in this rapidly changing environment remains to be seen. Rest assured, we will be following this story in the months ahead.
James Bell
Vice President of Global Strategy, Pew Research Center
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** Majorities in the European Union have favorable views of the bloc ([link removed])
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Across the eight EU member nations surveyed between June and August 2020, a median of 61% said the EU had done a good job ([link removed]) dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. Approval was highest in Germany and the Netherlands, where 68% in each country applauded the bloc’s efforts.
* Europeans approved of EU’s handling of COVID-19 this summer – but much has changed since ([link removed])
* How people around the world see the World Health Organization’s initial coronavirus response ([link removed])
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** America is exceptional in the nature of its political divide ([link removed])
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The U.S. is hardly the only country wrestling with deepening political fissures. Brexit has polarized British politics, the rise of populist parties has disrupted party systems across Europe, and cultural conflict and economic anxieties have intensified old cleavages and created new ones in many advanced democracies. But the 2020 pandemic has revealed how pervasive the divide in U.S. politics is ([link removed]) relative to other nations.
* 2020 election reveals two broad voting coalitions fundamentally at odds ([link removed])
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** In past elections, U.S. trailed most developed countries in voter turnout ([link removed])
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How does voter turnout in the United States compare with turnout in other countries ([link removed]) ? That depends very much on which country you’re looking at and which measuring stick you use.
* From voter registration to mail-in ballots, how do countries around the world run their elections? ([link removed])
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** After surging in 2019, migrant apprehensions at U.S.-Mexico border fell sharply in fiscal 2020 ([link removed])
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Border Patrol agents apprehended about half as many migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal 2020 as they did the year before, according to newly released federal data ([link removed]) . The sharp drop in the number of apprehended migrants follows a virtual shutdown of the border and new restrictions in the way asylum cases are handled in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
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** How Catholics around the world see same-sex marriage, homosexuality ([link removed])
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Around the world, Catholics vary in their support for same-sex marriage and their acceptance of homosexuality in general, according to Pew Research Center surveys conducted in recent years ([link removed]) . In the United States, about six-in-ten Catholics (61%) said in a 2019 survey that they favor allowing gays and lesbians to marry.
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